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Good morning my brothers and sisters here in Hawaii, and throughout the world, I have no notes of what I will be speaking about, I will let the Holy Spirit do that, to tell you the truth I didn’t think I would be making a sermon today at all, Friday, I received a phone call from the nurse at my doctors office, at 9:20 in the morning, I am up at 5:30 or 6:00. My doctors nurse tells me I have to go to the surgery center right away, then I must get there as soon as possible, first I am to week to be running around, to rush down there and to get a so called picc line for an IV put in my arm, first of all I am weak, and next I asked do I have time to get dressed, then I tell her I live in Papaikou , and she says that is only ten minutes, How do you know where I live? And how do you also know what kind of condition I am in? I have to take a shower, because I don’t know what kind of condition I will be in afterward, then I don’t know when and how I will take my next, then I rush around I can barely drive in the first place, I need time to pray, and get my mind and spirit ready for something, I believed to be simple. I knew this was all another act of santanic guidence again.

Then I go in and they take my vitals and a woman comes in and tells me I have to go through major surgery to put a tube in my arm a foot and a half long into my body, through x-ray and guidance right near my heart, I said, I am not going through that, I went into the bathroom and threw up, and started shaking, all because my insurance will not pay for a daily injection. So now I am threatened with my life in the hands of who knows, and I have to do all of this myself with my friend’s help that is totally disabled, in the first place, and can’t even unscrew the antibiotics? What next, no one tells me anything, everything was going to be simple, I would drive to the surgery center Monday through Friday and get a bag of antibiotic’s but no, I am poor or as some one else would say indigent, and they will not pay for this. So as I’m told I have no other choice, either do it this way or die. Big choice, haven’t I been through enough? So they have to go through a life treating infection causing surgery so I sit at home and do this myself, what is this world coming to? After I waited five months to find out what I have. Which I had to on my own in the first place use my last bit of money and go to the best infections disease doctor walking to his office with swollen feet on my 50th birthday in Honolulu. All of this menagerie is called home care, then I had a wonderful nurse come in and spend three hours on how and why to do this, to the point what to watch out for, and all the procedure step buy step they gave me and my friend all of the medicine, packed on ice, and rack for the bag, and all the added syringes full of saline and heparin to keep the line in my arm open, and then we were on my way, then I had to rush to the doctors office and get yelled at, because someone called my doctor and told him I caused a seen in the surgery center , because I was not informed by anyone, if any one was supposed to inform me it would or should have been from him! And now you are yelling at me as if I did something wrong, to save my life. I think we have a little problem here, I can not take the stress now and I cannot take what is happening to this 5 month test or trial on faith or belief in God and Christ what do these people think that I am superman? I 'm not, I have more faith than most, but between my mind and body I am dieing and each day that goes by I am that closer to death. I am not worried about death, to me death is a friend, but I do not want to be lied to, uninformed and treated like rubbish.

Then my doctor tells me that my infectious disease doctor doesn’t know or if he is shore what I have, or what antibiotic to use. What am I living in a circus and I am the clown being shot out of the cannon. When the nurse called me and told me personally there is an inflammation in the bone of your jaws, on the 6th, now what am I dealing with, more Spiritual warfare?

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Eph.6:10-17 NIV

Now after the confrontation of my doctor who doesn’t know who I am and doesn’t even know I am a man of God, after seeing him almost a year, finally writes out stronger prescriptions which are as I right this sermon are still not working. Then I had to drive around totally nervous even for a preacher, to get my meds filled. Now you got to here this story, I go to a pharmacy that has this particular drug it is written for 120 count, the young girl say’s to me well we only have 60, and we don’t give out partials and you would have to forfeit the rest. So I said you are telling me I have a prescription here for a hundred and twenty, and you only have sixty, and because you are short, I give away the medicine to the air that I need to save my life? Yes she said. I have been to many a pharmacy and they always give you a partial and then when the shipment comes in you go and get the rest. Am I living on the planet earth, or am I dealing with satan? All I want to do is get home and go to sleep and get my meds before I have to drive back anywhere else with one arm. I finally found a drug store that carries this particular brand, and they were going to close any minute and I must have gotten every traffic light and every car tie up in the whole time while I was trying to get there. I was under so much attack and nervous tension. I finally got home and slept till the next day, which was the first time I did that in 5 months.

Dear Heavenly Father , thank you I am able to teach your word today, my mind is not as quick to normalcy, but I will do my best with the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that will come upon me, please Father thank you for the IV’s and everything else for this church, otherwise there could be up to thousands not reading or hearing this sermon, I haven’t thanked you enough for all the things you have done for me, and all the people that have taken part and in all the prayers within this church, I want to thank you for getting us listed on all the search engines, and all the people and angels that set this church in motion.

Father we want to take the time to worship you in spirit and in truth, and we want to make you contented with our sharing of your word of today. We couldn’t have done it without you, and our greatest love Jesus Christ. We just want to say that we love you, and adore you O’mighty God. Please send your Holy Spirit upon us all, for all that see and hear this sermon today, In Jesus Name, Amen.

Christ’s loneliness was one of the bitterest essentials of his earthly sorrow. All great men are solitary men, for there are so few others in whom they can find companionship. Christ was the greatest man who ever lived on the earth. His very greatness of character made it impossible for him to have any real companionship among men. Besides, those whom he came to bless and save rejected him. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not” The only human relief to his loneliness along the years of his public ministry was in the love of his chosen friends, and this was most imperfect and unsatisfactory.

But we know where he ever turned for relief and comfort in his experiences. After a day of pain and suffering he would climb the mountain and spend the night in communion with his Father, returning in the morning renewed and strong for another day of beautiful life. In his darkest hour he said that though left alone as to human companionship, he was not alone, because his Father was with him. The comfort of our Lords heart in his loneliness is for us too, if we are walking in his steps. We too have our experiences of loneliness in this world, and we too may have the blessed companionship that shall fill the emptiness. In a certain sense all life is lonely. Even with understanding companionships all about us, there is an inner life which each of us lives all together alone. We must make our own choices and decisions. We must meet our own questions and answers them ourselves. We must fight our own battles; endure our own sorrows, carry, and our own burdens. Friendship may be very close and tender, but there is a sanctuary of each life into which even the holiest friendship may not enter.

Blessed are they who in loneliness can say, “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” God is the only friendship that can really meet all our soul’s deep needs and cravings. Human companionship helps us at a few points; the divine has its blessing for every experience. We never shall be left alone when we have Christ. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, he will ever stand close beside us. When other faces fade out of view his will shine out with tender love, pouring its light upon us. There are special experiences of loneliness in every life for which Christ is needed. Youth is one of these times. Youth seems happy and light-hearted. Companionships swarm all about it. But often times a young person feels lonely even in the middle of such scenes and friendships. All life is new to him. As his soul awakes a thousand questions come to notice, demanding an answer. He is in a world with a thousand paths, and he must choose in which he will walk. Everything is mysterious. There are perils lurking on all sides. Choices must be made. Lessons must be learned. All is new, and at every step the voice is heard, “You have not passed this way here to there.” This loneliness of immaturity, when a young soul is taking its earliest steps in life, is one of the most trying and painful feelings of all the years. If Christ be not then the companion, lonely and unsafe indeed is the way. But if he walks beside the young soul in its inexperience all is well.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. ICor.12:21-27 NIV

There are those who are lonely because they are homeless. It is impossible to estimate too highly the value and the helpfulness of a true home of love. Home is a shelter. Young lives nest there and find warmth and protection. There is also guidance in a true Christian home. Many of life’s hardest questions are answered by a wise mother or father. Blessed is that young man or young woman who can take every confusion, every hunger, home to the purity of loves sanctuary, and who gets there true sympathy, patient counsel, and wise guidance. Home has also its blessed companionship. It is the one place where we are absolutely sure of each other and do not need to be on our guard. Youth has its unspeakable longings, its deep hungers, and its cravings for gentleness; in the true home these are all met. Those who have such a home do not realize the half of it is to them. It is the very shadow of Christ’s wings over their lives, the very cleft of the Rock the very bosom of divine love.

Life’s loneliness means far less to them while home shields them and blesses them with its companionships and its gentle, patient, wise, helpful, nourishing love. But sometimes the home is pulled down over youth and its shelter broken up. Few things are sadder than homeliness. Loneliness begins to be really felt when the home is gone, when there is no longer a wise and loving mother to give her counsel in life’s inexperience, to lay her hand on the head in approval, to listen to eager questions and answer them, to restrain the impulsive spirit, to quiet the soul when it is troubled and when its peace is broken, to lead through difficult paths, to fill the hungry heart with the comfort of love when it longs for sympathy and companionship. Bitter indeed is the sense of loneliness when a young person, used to all that a mothers love means, turns away from a mothers grave to miss the middle of the day rewards and the blessings that have been so much in the past. Nothing earthly will in any full and enough measure compensate for the loss. Other human friendships may be very sweet, but they will not give back home, with its shelter, its affection, its trust, its guidance, its soothing, its security. Only less lonely is it for the young people whom circumstances take away in early years from the home where through childhood their life has been gently nourished. The home still stands, and the love is still there with all its blessed warmth, and letters can be sent and received, and now and then there can be a return for a brief stay in the sacred shelter. This lightens the loss and the loneliness; yet even this experience is often times a very sad one. Away from home there is always a loss not of love only, but also of protection. The young people, who leave quiet rural homes for life in the midst of a great city, plunge into perils from which only Christ can shield them.

But blessed is that life which in an earthly homelessness can say, “Yet I am not alone, because Christ is with me.” Blessed is that loneliness or homelessness which has Christ to fill the emptiness. With Christ unseen yet loved and made real to the heart by love and faith, even a room in a boarding house may become a home, a sanctuary of peace, a shelter of divine love. Another time of special loneliness is when sorrow strips off the sweet friendships of life. Old age is an illustration. Old people are often times very lonely. Once they were the center of groups of friends and companions who clustered about them. But the years brought their changes. Now the old man stands alone. Still the streets are full; but where are the faces of forty, fifty, years ago? There is a memory of vacant chairs, of marriage altars with the unbinding and the separations that followed. The old faces are gone. It is young life that now fills the home, the street, the church, and the old people are lonely because their old friends are gone.

Yet in Christ even old age can say, “I am not alone.” No changes in life can take him away. He is the companion of life’s weakness. He loves the old people. There is a special promise for them: “Even to old age I am he and even to hit the mark I will carry you.” Christian old age is very near to glory. It will not be long till the old people reach home to stand again in the middle of the circle of loved ones who blessed their youth and early years. But not the old people only are left lonely by life’s changes; sorrow touches all ages and if we have not Christ when other friends are taken, isolated indeed shall we be. Blessed is that life, any life, which, when human friends are taken away, finds the friendship of Christ all filling, all-satisfying, and can say, “Yet I am not alone, for Christ is with me.”

The loneliest of all human experiences is that of dying. We cannot die in clusters, not even two and two; we must die alone. Human hands must unclamp ours as we enter the valley of shadows. Human faces must fade from our vision as we pass into the haze. “I cannot see you,” said one dying, as the loved ones stood about the bed. So it will be with each one of us in turn. Human love cannot go beyond the edge of the valley. But we need not be alone even in the deepest of all loneliness, for if we are Christ’s we can say, “Yet I am not alone, for my Savior is with me.” When human hands unclasp, his will clasp ours the more firmly. When human loved faces fade out, his will shine above us in all its glorious brightness. When we must creep out of the bosom of human affection, it will be only into the clasp of the everlasting arms, into the bosom of Christ. Deaths loneliness will thus be filled with divine companionship. The assumption from all this is our absolute need of the friendship and companionship of Christ, without which we can only sink away into life’s loneliness and perish. One reason, no doubt, why our lives are so full of experiences of need, is that we may learn to walk with Christ. If earth’s human companionships satisfied us, and if we never lost them, we might not care for Christ’s. If earth’s homes were perfect, and if they never crumbled, we might not grow homesick for heaven.

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as an inheritance, I may contaminate some of your houses with an infectious mildew.The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, `It looks like my house has some kind of disease.' Before the priest examines the house, he must have the house emptied so everything inside will not be pronounced unclean. Then the priest will go in and inspect the house. If he finds bright green or reddish streaks on the walls of the house and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface, he will leave the house and lock it up for seven days. On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If the mildew on the walls of the house has spread, the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be thrown into an area outside the town designated as ceremonially unclean. Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town. Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered.

"But if the mildew reappears after all these things have been done, the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he sees that the affected areas have spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with an infectious mildew, and the house is defiled. It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean. Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be considered ceremonially unclean until evening. All who sleep or eat in the house must wash their clothing.

"But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the affected areas have not reappeared after the fresh plastering, then he will pronounce the house clean because the infectious mildew is clearly gone. To purify the house the priest will need two birds, some cedarwood, a scarlet cloth, and a hyssop branch. 50He will slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot that is filled with fresh springwater. 51Then he will dip the cedarwood, the hyssop branch, the scarlet cloth, and the living bird into the blood of the slaughtered bird, and he will sprinkle the house seven times. After he has purified the house in this way, he will release the living bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the house, and it will be ceremonially clean.

"These are the instructions for dealing with the various kinds of contagious skin disease and infectious mildew, whether in clothing, in a house, in a swollen area of skin, in a skin rash, or in a shiny patch of skin. These instructions must be followed when dealing with any contagious skin disease or infectious mildew, to determine when something is ceremonially clean or unclean." Lev.14:33-57 NLT

Dear Heavenly Father, I had to talk about my affliction today, but in a teaching way, and to share my afflictions that others can gain strength through what I have suffered, and I want to be clean again, I would like to preach the gospel regular, without the pain and suffering, and I do want to be healed to build that mission downtown for the poor, We all need your help Lord, and I wish all the people that read this learn that loneliness can be anywhere, even in a house full of people, or a full church building, you can still be alone, but when you have Christ you are never alone. God Bless you all, till next week, I bid you all grace and peace in Jesus Name, Amen and Amen.